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Mr Tlou William Manamela passed away on 19 January 2021 due to COVID-19 complications. Tlou joined us at Performance Solutions Africa (PSA) on 13 May 2019. PSA has recently been commissioned as one of the Service Providers on the Anglo American South Africa Education Programme. As such, we were looking for past education managers that…

Time flies, because on the 14 December 2021 we successfully underwent our 1st Re-Certification audit against the ISO 9001:2015 standard and received re-certification.  As an organisation PSA is proud to have been recertified against this internationally recognised quality management standard. The implementation of this standard has required that we focus on the following principles of…

During the month of July 2020, PSA held workshops with circuit managers (CMs) and Deputy Chief Education Specialists (DCES).  The workshops were aimed at supporting the officials in being able to monitor and track curriculum coverage and assessments at their schools, targeting prioritized grades and subjects.  This is especially important during this time when there…

Theme 9 Final report Parker et al

PSA continued with the provision of Online Training & Coaching for the principals at 4 schools funded and supported by Penreach in Mpumalanga. The online training and coaching focused on the 2 modules PSA recently developed and implemented to assist the management teams of schools, to respond positively and proactively to the challenges resulting from…

The COVID-19 lockdown period has brought with it high levels of uncertainty to the entire education system and has school management teams with a range of very challenging issues to address. The successful transition through this period will rest very heavily on these leadership teams getting the right practices and disciplines in place from the…

During COVID-19, many school management teams are trying to figure out how they will cope with the demands of schooling where parts of the curriculum have been lost. The DBE draft Framework for Recovery post COVID-19 indicates “The success of the programmes will depend on effective school leadership and management and the extent to which…

PSA has an accredited Financial Management Module which it conducted with principals from the Edendale Circuit located in the Umgungundlovu district, KwaZulu-Natal.  The training followed PSA’s tested approach which is to conduct a group training session and to follow this up with coaching sessions with the principals at their schools to assist with implementation.  The…

Performance Solutions Africa is currently driving the Leadership and Management Development element of the Anglo America South Africa (AASA) Education programme which is being implemented in 109 schools in Mpumalanga, Limpopo and Northern Cape. Our focus is working with the SMT’s to bring about improvement of the management practices in their schools to positively influence…

PSA has almost concluded the facilitation of a program of approximately 60 performance management workshops covering 1150 staff members at the DUT. These workshops commenced in September 2018 with the institution’s senior executive team and were then rolled out by level and by department to cover 79% of the total staff complement. The workshops were…